Electric cars take back seat at auto show in Geneva

AFP, GENEVA, Switzerland

However, Volkswagen is only planning on making 250 units, and is unlikely to immediately take the market by storm.

Nissan, German Daimler and US carmaker Ford are meanwhile aiming to hit the accelerator in their development of affordable fuel-cell vehicles — a technology that is taking a while to get rolling but that they hope to get on the roads by 2017.